As My Uncle Used To Say Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCCCB BBBBDDDB EBFBGGGB| I've thought a power on men and things | A |
| As my uncle ust to say | B |
| And ef folks don't work as they pray i jings | B |
| W'y they ain't no use to pray | B |
| Ef you want somepin' and jes dead set | C |
| A pleadin' fer it with both eyes wet | C |
| And tears won't bring it w'y you try sweat | C |
| As my uncle ust to say | B |
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| They's some don't know their A B Cs | B |
| As my uncle ust to say | B |
| And yit don't waste no candle grease | B |
| Ner whistle their lives away | B |
| But ef they can't write no book ner rhyme | D |
| No ringin' song fer to last all time | D |
| They can blaze the way fer the march sublime | D |
| As my uncle ust to say | B |
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| Whoever's Foreman of all things here | E |
| As my uncle ust to say | B |
| He knows each job 'at we 're best fit fer | F |
| And our round up night and day | B |
| And a sizin' His work east and west | G |
| And north and south and worst and best | G |
| I ain't got nothin' to suggest | G |
| As my uncle ust to say | B |
James Whitcomb Riley
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